BACK: A Remedy representative has all but confirmed a Alan Wake sequel in the works

Over the last few days there's been quite a few Alan Wake easter eggs uncovered in the new Quantum Break gameplay footage.

A lot has been shown to press and also at the recent Xbox Spring Showcase event in San Francisco.

You can even see a glaringly obviously reference in the below video taken from a lecture hall blackboard littered with frantic scribblings about Alan Wake.

Quite a bit of these scrawls concern the events that Alan Wake undergoes in Alan Wake and Alan Wake's American Nightmare.

But as pointed out by polygon.com, it seems to be picking apart Alan Wake as some sort of work of fiction — making references to things like the hero's journey monomyth and noting references to English poet William Blake.

*** You can see some Alan Wake easter eggs from Quantum Break in the video below ***

A sequel to Alan Wake was planned and prototyped but never saw release and it's clear Remedy are signalling their intent to return to the character with all these easter eggs.

So, with time to talk to one of Remedy's key men, Daily Star Online decided to ask what's going on and here's what Thomas Puha, Communications Director from Remedy told us.

"Really it’s about having a little bit of fun by putting in these little Alan Wake Easter eggs into the game," explained Puha.

"This is something for the fans out there, that's the way we look at it. There’s lots of other references to find, some for our other games which you’ll see the further into the game, but this is just us having a little bit of fun."

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ALAN WAKE: References to Remedy's past work is pretty easy to spot

The thing is, small scribbles on a chalkboard isn't the only easter egg to be found.

In a very early section of the game - which we and many others were unfortunately not allowed to record - there's a tent with a large flatscreen television inside.

Hit X to activate the television, and you're treated to a cinematic trailer for a live-action Alan Wake adaptation and at the end the words "RETURN" the name of Wake's collectible manuscript from Alan Wake's American Nightmare.

But that's not all, because Remedy games have recently filed for a trademark for Alan Wake's Return (see below).

Again, we asked Thomas what all this meant and whether there was anything deeper than simply providing fun nods within Quantum Break.

Here's what he told us: "Is there a higher purpose? Of course! we want to keep the name out there.

"But really, you should take it as a sign of things to come, it's there, we had some fun, we got to get the band back together basically.

"It is [an indication of something on Remedy's mind] but you shouldn't take it as a promise, this is something that is fan service, but having said that we have a very clear idea of what the future of Alan Wake would be, if we get to do it."

With this news in mind it's probably worth mentioning that anyone who pre-orders the Xbox One version of the game will also receive backwards compatible versions of Alan Wake plus two DLCs and Alan Wake’s American Nightmare.

Thats in addition to the free copy of Quantum Break playable on Windows 10.